Chemo induced Congestive Heart Failure

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  • Thunder7
    Thunder7 Member Posts: 73
    edited April 2017

    A year and a half post chemo, the symptoms really started about a year after but I kept getting misdiagnosed because I had not had the type of chemo that was supposed to cause CHF. Finally got diagnosed when EF was 10-15%. Spent 10 days in hospital, 6 in Cardiac ICU. Left with EF of 20-25%. Just finished Cardiac rehab have another Echo in May hope it has improved even more. While in CICU I lost 30lbs of fluid in 3 days!!!! Personally I think it was a combination of Arimidex, Chemo and the 7 surgeries in 1.25 years. Totally pissed that no one could figure this out until I literally felt like I was dying.

    Keep posting ladies, trying to explain that this is chemo related to Oncologist.

    Thunder7

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  • leftfootforward
    leftfootforward Member Posts: 1,726
    edited April 2017

    glad you are feeling better thunder.

    After another year break from herceptin, my EF is back to normal. Looks like I can only tolerate herceptin for 6 months or so. Gotta love managing these things

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